Filmmaker Arthur Dong

Irvine -- In the wake of the verdict and
sentencing of one of the two convicted murderers of Matthew Shepard,
Subversity, a KUCI public affairs interview program, on Friday, November
5, 1999 airs an interview with Arthur Dong, the documentary film director
whose Emmy-nominated film, Licensed to Kill, addressed the issue of hate
crimes against gay males. The show airs Friday from 5-6 p.m. on KUCI,
88.9 FM in Orange County and is Web-cast live during that time at kuci.org/listen.html.

Dong, who was on campus to show his film during UCI's Rainbow Festival
Wednesday, engages in a conversation on hate, death, life, religious
right, domestic partnership, family and dedication with UCI Asst. Prof.
Glen Mimura (Asian American Studies) and show host Dan Tsang.

His many documentaries include Coming Out Under Fire, about gays in the
military. For more information, check out his production company,
DeepFocus Productions and his
Licensed to Kill Web-page. Many
of his films are available
at the UCI Main Library's Multimedia Resources
Center for viewing there or to use in classes.

Licensed to Kill features interviews by Dong with many murderers. Among
their targets is a Vietnamese man killed in Texas. Dong also included in
his film a picture of Loc Minh Truong, who was beaten almost to death in
1993 in Laguna Beach. For more on Loc Minh Truong's case, see Laguna
Beach Bashers Plead Guilty.